# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/baruch-samuel-blumberg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:41:10.249Z

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name: "Baruch Samuel Blumberg"
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description: "Baruch Samuel Blumberg, known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death."
tagline: "American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011)"
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birthDate: "1925-07-28"
deathDate: "2011-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump